{{BOLD}}The Ministry of Truth, Part 1{{/BOLD}} [[BR]] How the Prime Minister’s Office has ordered a systemic operation to discredit and ‘fix’ global rankings which show the gov’t in bad light. And, to home-cook some charitable replacements.
{{BOLD}}Ministry of Truth, Part 2{{/BOLD}} [[BR]] The homemade poverty index was preordained to show the government in a flattering light, reveals a confidential report. Then convenient parameters were cherrypicked to show a lower number of poor. Modi flaunted the numbers in the election campaign.
{{BOLD}}The Ministry of Truth, Concluding Part{{/BOLD}} [[BR]] Ministries pass the buck on democracy and rule of law while quietly acknowledging rising corruption and politicised investigative agencies
Nitin Sethi, Ayushi Kar
Modi government has commissioned an audacious operation to scrub India’s global image. The primary target is international indices in which India fares badly. Ministries, embassies, and a special unit called GIRG have been tasked to track and influence over 30 indices that rank countries on hunger, poverty, democracy, rule of law among others. Their playbook? Lobbying to alter methodologies to bump up India’s rankings, unleashing ministers to bash the indices, and creating homegrown indices with cherry-picked data to make India look good. This investigation exposes a government more obsessed with optics than fixing country’s real problems.
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